STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE: TRIALS AND TRIBBLE-ATIONS (TV)
Summary
One in a series of science fiction programs about a twenty-fourth-century space station, Deep Space Nine. In this episode, Captain Sisko and the crew aboard the Defiant travel back in time to protect Captain James T. Kirk from the nefarious plot of a vengeful Klingon. As the program begins, Sisko amazes two dour representatives of Temporal Investigations with an account of his recent time travel. Told in flashback, the following events occur: Arne Darvin, a Klingon disguised as a human, uses a mysterious orb to transport the Defiant one hundred years into the past. Darvin has nursed a grudge against Kirk dating back to the twenty-third century, when Kirk doomed Darvin to a lifetime of wretched imprisonment. Historically, this event occurred when the Enterprise became infested with tribbles -- small, furry creatures with alarming breeding capabilities. The twenty-fourth-century Darvin, having travelled back in time to this incident, plants a bomb in one of the cute, purring vermin, which will kill Kirk and alter the course of galactic history. Sisko and his crew must find the booby-trapped tribble and capture Darvin without altering the past themselves. The Defiant crew struggles to blend in, but cannot conceal their clumsiness with inferior technology and their awe in the presence of the legendary Kirk, Spock, and company. They face other distractions: Worf suffers embarrassment over the mysteriously dissimilar Klingons of the past; Dr. Bashir fears a sexy, flirtatious woman may be his great-grandmother; and Dax finds herself attracted to Mr. Spock. Back in the present, the temporal investigators are satisfied with Sisko's report, despite the fact that temporal integrity has, indeed, been breached -- Deep Space Nine finds itself choked with enthusiastically reproducing tribbles. Commercials deleted.
(This program includes footage from the original Star Trek episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles," which is part of the Museum's collection and may be viewed separately. See T:06108.)
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Cheryl Shapiro.
Details
- NETWORK: Syndicated
- DATE: November 9, 1996
- RUNNING TIME: 0:45:25
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:50191
- GENRE: Drama, fantasy/science fiction
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, fantasy/science fiction
- SERIES RUN: Syndicated - TV series, 1993-1999
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Rick Berman … Executive Producer, Created by
- Ira Steven Behr … Executive Producer, Writer
- della Santina, Robert … Coordinating Producer
- Peter Lauritson … Supervising Producer
- Ronald D. Moore … Supervising Producer, Writer
- Hans Beimler … Co-Supervising Producer, Writer
- Steve Oster … Producer
- Rene Echevarria … Producer, Writer
- Robert Hewitt Wolfe … Producer, Writer
- J.P. Farrell … Co-Producer
- Terri Potts … Associate Producer
- Jonathan West … Director
- Michael Piller … Created by
- Gene Roddenberry … Based upon "Star Trek" created by
- Dennis McCarthy … Music by
- Avery Brooks … Cast, Captain Benjamin Sisko
- Rene Auberjonois … Cast, Odo
- Michael Dorn … Cast, Lt. Commander Worf
- Terry Farrell … Cast, Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax
- Cirroc Lofton … Cast, Jake Sisko
- Colm Meaney … Cast, Chief Miles O'Brien
- Armin Shimerman … Cast, Quark
- Alexander Siddig (see also: Siddig el Fadil) … Cast, Dr. Julian Bashir
- Nana Visitor … Cast, Major Kira Nerys
- Jack Blessing … Cast, Dulmur
- James Jansen … Cast, Lucsly
- Charlie Brill … Cast, Arne Darvin
- Leslie Ackerman … Cast, the Waitress
- Charles S. Chun … Cast, the Engineer
- Dierdre L. Imershein … Cast, Lieutenant Watley
- From "The Trouble With Tribbles":
- William Shatner … Cast, Capt. James T. Kirk
- Leonard Nimoy … Cast, Mr. Spock
- DeForest Kelley … Cast, Dr. Leonard McCoy
- James Doohan … Cast, Scotty
- Nichelle Nichols … Cast, Lt. Uhura
- Walter Koenig … Cast, Chekov
- Stanley Adams … Cast, Cyrano Jones
- Paul Baxley … Cast, Ensign Freeman
- Whit Bissell … Cast, Lurry
- Charlie Brill … Cast, Arne Darvin
- Michael Pataki … Cast, Korax
- Guy Raymond … Cast, the Trader
- David Ross … Cast, the Guard
- William Schallert … Cast, Nilz Baris